Ritual purification in religion can involve bathing in a river to maintain purity prior to an important act. The bathers seen in the Menik Ganga in the following photo are preparing to enter the Kataragama Temple near Tissamaharama, Sri Lanka, a sacred site for Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and Vedda people. Although the water didn’t seem clean to us, physical impurities don’t diminish the ritual purity such bathing brings to the believers.
Bathing Ritual
This photo was taken on February 14, 2018. Specs are:
Canon 100D, ISO 100, f/11, 1/60 sec, 50 mm.
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